Bistro serves classics with a modern touch
(02/22/06 10:00am)
You could search all day for the name "Fork" emblazened on a trendy Market Street door, but you would be looking in vain -- there's only a picture of one.
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Our own anti-Tucker Max
(02/08/06 10:00am)
Last week's visit by asshole/sex god Tucker Max got me thinking. If people are so entertained by Tucker's blog, where he documents his ridiculously successful sex life, people might like to hear from the anti-Tucker Max, that guy who is so incapable of getting any his computer freezes when he watches porn.
18 should be the new 21
(01/25/06 10:00am)
This campus is brimming with hippies. Don't let the designer handbags and gaudy Greek rush events fool you. This campus is full of rabble-rousing, free-spirited law breakers willing to face-down the man.
Bringing parties back to campus
(01/17/06 10:00am)
In one of my favorite Simpsons episodes, Homer goes to the DMV to get a chauffeur's driver's license. But during his driving exam, Aunts Patty and Selma take off points for every little error he makes and, soon enough, Homer fails his driving exam.
1 percent vote for 1 percent art
(01/13/06 10:00am)
"It looks like cosmic soda straws."
The real answer to Penn's application
(01/12/06 10:00am)
We all had to write it. It was like taking a square suppository, but if you wanted to get into Penn, you had to write Essay 5a.
Crime Log
(11/30/05 10:00am)
DUI
Student groups push to increase ease of recycling
(11/29/05 10:00am)
Student groups are uniting to expand the University's limited recycling programs, and they hope that their combined efforts will force administrators to pay attention.
Digging up local histories
(11/22/05 10:00am)
What do you get when you put a Penn professor, two TAs and a group of eager students in a 25-foot-long, three-foot-deep hole in Vineland, N.J.?
Students take tea with Rendell
(11/14/05 10:00am)
When professors scale back the classes they teach, it is usually not because Bill Clinton tapped them for the Democratic National Committee chairmanship.
Staying safe during your time overseas
(11/04/05 10:00am)
Studying in a foreign country can come with many pitfalls, but the Office of International Programs is hoping to help students avoid most of them.
The changing party scene
(11/01/05 10:00am)
As a freshman, Conor Daly went from one registered party to another until early in the morning. He'd usually start on Locust Walk, visiting St. Anthony's and Sigma Chi, then maybe off to Alpha Epsilon Pi and Pi Kappa Phi.
Campus bar adds food service
(10/21/05 9:00am)
The Blarney Stone, tucked away on Sansom Street, has long prided itself on its disdain for pretense. For instance, doormen are instructed to not permit entry to potential customers with popped collars.
A better toast to dear ol' Penn
(09/30/05 9:00am)
Penn students can afford to chuck toast onto a field. Others in Philadelphia aren't as lucky.
Owed an apology
(09/15/05 9:00am)
We all know the news coverage about the Katrina disaster has been, well ... questionable. We've got looting vs. finding, federal vs. local responsibility, and the really big question: does George W. Bush really not care about black people?
Grad students travel to New York for rally
(09/07/05 9:00am)
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Alcohol policy aims for safety
(09/01/05 9:00am)
Though University officials do not condone underage drinking, the primary goal of the school's alcohol policy is to ensure the safety of students whether they are legally allowed to drink or not.
Edgy festival brings 'wild' artists
(09/01/05 9:00am)
The large stone chapel at 42nd and Spruce streets no longer echoes the sound of sermons, but soon the sound of guitar riffs and recordings from the '60s will reverberate through the building.
Nursing class plugs benefits of breastfeeding
(06/02/05 9:00am)
The effects of the community-based breastfeeding class that started at the School of Nursing 10 years ago are spreading not just throughout Philadelphia, but across the entire field of nursing. Diane Spatz, a Nursing professor, started teaching "Case Study in Breastfeeding and Human Lactation" in 1995. This seminar of between 15 and 23 students is offered every fall and consists of two hours of instruction and 14 hours of related work at community sites per week, in addition to an individual community-advocacy project. The course "focuses on the community service that the students do [for] the advocacy of breastfeeding," Spatz said. "Even though we know breastfeeding is best, bottle-feeding is the cultural norm," she added. Currently, barely 20 percent of impoverished women in West Philadelphia breastfeed. When Spatz started the course, very few nursing schools had in-depth breastfeeding courses. "They learn from the scientific evidence and then go on to affect the community," she said, adding that "Penn Nursing grads go all over the world." Spatz and her students have been able to identify many different communities and groups to which to advocate breastfeeding. "Advocacy takes many different shapes," Spatz said, "by targeting many different types of groups to break down cultural barriers." Last month, Spatz published an article in the Journal of Human Lactation that provided models for creating similar programs and for demonstrating the impact that breastfeeding advocacy can have on communities. Spatz's article outlines five areas where breastfeeding advocacy has especially succeeded. One area is the participation of the father. A support group for fathers started by a Penn Nursing student has been run successfully out of Pennsylvania Hospital in Center City for five years. There have also been efforts to reach out to immigrant communities, equip community hospitals for counseling, change community perceptions of public breastfeeding and make children more familiar with breastfeeding. "Different communities need different approaches -- they have to be multifaceted," Spatz said. In her article, Spatz noted that since studies show that many women have decided whether or not to breastfeed before deciding to have children, breastfeeding awareness has to start early. "Children do not know about breastfeeding if they did not have it done to them, and they do not learn it in school," Spatz said. Among West Philadelphia sites that have benefitted from the work of Spatz' students is the Nursing School Health Annex, at which multiple students have done projects. Nursing senior Jennie Petruney did a project at Albert Einstein Medical Center training nurses in a breastmilk-measurement technique. She was able to tailor it specifically to Einstein with the help of the hospital's own breastfeeding specialists. "Before the class, I knew that breastfeeding was important. Now I know that it is essential. Now I know how to instruct, inform and advocate," Petruney said.
Just how impenetrable was the Quad?
(04/18/05 9:00am)
With the University beefing up security in the days leading up to Fling, we at The Daily Pennsylvanian decided to see if we could pull off what many Quadrangle residents doubtless spent hours trying to accomplish -- sneak alcohol into the Quad.
